Buxton, Bader homer as Twins beat Orioles again, win fourth straight

Buxton later added a 106 mile-per-hour single for his 12th multi-hit game since April 13, which is tied for the most in baseball. He's hitting over .315 and slugging over .650 in his last 23 games, and he has eight home runs, five steals, 20 runs scored, and 21 RBI during that span. After a slow start, his OPS on the season is up to .847.

The Orioles cut their deficit in half with a run in the fifth inning to chase Twins starter Simeon Woods Richardson from the game, but Harrison Bader added some insurance with a pinch-hit two-run homer in the seventh. It was Bader's fourth of the year and first since April 2.

The Twins (17-20) have won the first two games of this series against Baltimore by a combined score of 14-3. They've now sandwiched two four-game winning streaks around a tough four-game losing streak. Since starting 7-15, they've won ten of their last 15 games.

Woods Richardson was pulled with two outs in the fifth inning, having allowed two runs. Danny Coulombe entered the game and escaped trouble for the Twins, who got a strong night from five different relievers. Louis Varland, making his 20th appearance in 37 games, finished off the sixth inning with an incredible fielding play.

Brock Stewart pitched the seventh, Griffin Jax worked around a couple hits in the eighth, and Jhoan Duran locked down his fifth save of the year for Minnesota in the ninth.

The Twins will look to complete the sweep and set a new season high with five straight wins in Thursday afternoon's series finale. Joe Ryan takes the bump for Minnesota against Baltimore's Dean Kremer at 12:10 p.m. CT.